bat an eyelid
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编辑bat an eyelid (第三人称单数简单现在时 bats an eyelid,现在分词 batting an eyelid,一般过去时及过去分词 batted an eyelid)
- (俗语,主要用否定) 关心,注意,有反应,理睬
- 近义词: flinch
- When laptop computers first came out they were something of a novelty. These days, nobody bats an eyelid.
- 笔记本电脑刚问世的时候很新奇,现在大家都见怪不怪了。
- 1914, Edgar Beecher Bronson, The Vanguard,页号 155:
- […] he got the drop on Cox, the only time I had seen or heard of its being done — had his pistol out and stuck in Cox's face before Cox could bat an eyelid.
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- 2006, Pete Takeda, An Eye at the Top of the World,页号 116:
- If you were to walk into a salon in America after a few 10–12 hour days of sweaty, dusty travel with no shower, you'd probably be politely asked to leave and not return until you've cleaned up. But here in a land whose resources and infrastructure cannot sustain such frivolity, the barber doesn't even bat an eyelid.
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- 2007, Fionn Davenport, Dublin Encounter,页号 153:
- Dublin's not a bad place to be gay. Most people wouldn't bat an eyelid at public displays of affection between same-sex couples […]
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编辑- ↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, 1997, p. 720